After three weeks of interning at my local newspaper, I have learned new things about the world of journalism and also see a lot of potential for it. In order to be a successful journalist, I realize, you have to constantly come up with new ideas. Ideas that are innovative and different from other newspapers are going to sell with readers. Personally, I love watching stories in the form of video. I find it so intriguing, and so much more interesting than reading a story. I think there is an aspect to video that makes the story more conversational, and more personnel to readers, or in this case, viewers.
One of the things the paper I am interning for has started doing is holding stories from going online. Some stories are only printed in the paper, particularly one of the opinion columns. Obviously this is to try and sell more newspapers, and I don't really see a problem with it. I have heard people around town disagree with the idea of holding stories from going online. However, perhaps this is the beginning of a "turn around" for the newspaper industry. I think it's a great start to getting readers to buy print editions. Or maybe it will just force people to start buying other papers?
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